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If you watched the video Nev they only want the motor back for a internal issue to find out why. Also to determine a fix or change to a process .Any thing else thats a bolt on is a replacment part

The video posted the other day said warranty was 3 years or 500 hrs..if it has a actual mechanical issue with the engine they will give you a new one and want to old complete engine back. Thats pretty good and shows they do want to make it a good engine..warranty with Rotax is always a fight and certainly not 3 years. I dont believe anyone in OZ has taken on a dealership yet but you would need a proper service and mech backup shop to do it correctly. If the engine was about 20k aussie then I think its very viable for that price certainly in the beginning of them trying to get units out there. I am not sure though of the current Floods price for a 912ULS but last time I heard it was 35k but dont forget that was no exhaust or oil cooler or radiater either..thats for a out of time swap engine

I enquired direct to Zongshen about them when they first appeared about 2 or 3 years ago..they wanted you to buy 4 engines to be a dealer and at the time they would have been about 28k aussie..the rotax was 32k aussie

26k US$ is about 38K aussie.....the rotax here is about the same price now

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The USA and Canada agent has pricing on the website and its only a couple of thousand less in the USA than a genuine rotax

They are not that much cheaper than a rotax though....if they were 10k cheaper then ok but they are only about 5k cheaper

Yes it is a shame that you have been F@$ked over like this. yet there are a number of jabs flying that have had CAR35 i think it is. We had one at Caboolture airfield for a few years then it was sold. Not sure where it went to. I could find out if you want as I know the school operator. and it was RAA rego not GA I am sure. The new owner of jabiru hopefully sees the light and does one with a Rotax up the front hopefully he is not as pig headed as old Rodney about these things. They would sell a heap of Jabs with Rotax...there are still a lot of potential buyers out there that just dont trust the jab engine...I am not trying to start a flame war here just stating a fact. But now Stiffy is not the controlling partner maybe some improvements could be made as the Jab has been proved as a good safe airframe.

I bought it to keep my bolly at the time in good nick for the engine. It has balanced quite a lot of engines now since I have had it. I have a L2 that borrows it a bit when servicing some aircraft even GA ones it has done. It was probably some overkill really for just my aircraft but at the time I was a bit flush and could spare the cost without a second thought. I of course do Eprop and they are all prebalanced but I dont think I would ever sell it. Its what I class as "test equipment"...There are some things I will never sell. That is all my very expensive RF test equipment and other electronic test gear also my lathe and my CNC Mill..There are some things once you manage to either fund or beg borrow or steal that you end up never selling. They only go when they are broken beyond repair or its by the execetor of your will....I think its a thing that most radio techs do. I bet if you ask RFGuy he doesnt get rid of his prized test equipment even if you only use it once a year 🙂

I have a dynavibe..they work well. Bought it secondhand for about 1200 quite a few years ago now.

No they are typically FETS..they are a voltage device rather than a current based device. Essentially they work like a switch when you place a voltage onto the gate and the drain and source then conduct. They are still semiconductors but they dont have any gain like a transistor does. I am trying to keep this as simple as I can because this subject is huge now. FETS are almost taking over the world 🙂 They are silicon switch for a better word. FETS are really common now and most of all your solar inverters and your power inverters etc..anything that switches on and off ans fast they are generally FETS now. They can take a crap load of current through them because their "on resistance" is very small. A lot of FETS have resistance across the junction like 0.28 of an ohm when turned on and even less. There is a mininum voltage that they turn on with but there is still a current limit as the junction resistance is not the lowest until the voltage gets to a higher level. There are so many types of FETS now its crazy...infact RF Output devices are commonly FETS now and are used regularly ...and I am talking lots of power. LDMOS type ones are regularly 1.5kw RF out Infact the main RF output device in a Xcom airband radio is a FET

Skippy you wouldnt want to be running any starter motor current through that thing

The wattage loss is very low even at 10 amps (6 watts max) which would be the most current drawn from a dual efis system and ancillaries. That is only while it is turned on. With semiconductors the limiting factor is the device's junction temperature. The reason I dont like relays is it is drawing all your avionics load current through a spade terminal. I much prefer the screw/boltability of the SSR to take all the load. As a case in point just look how many Rotax regulators end up with burnt out spade terminals on the regulators...I would know of 20 or 30 at least...I dont like them odds...its just not a good thing..Thats why AC43 pretty much specifies ring terminal connections when possible

no he had a carb engine spring fail and the engine was running very rough so he put down on the island...emerg services came but they got it sorted and continued onto tasmania

Where is Hogan Island?..There was a incident I know of in Bass Strait. but it wasnt a savannah